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Answer 1

+3 A:

Upgrade to the latest version of the SVN client. The version you have installed doesn't have the --keep-local option yet. This feature was added in SVN 1.5.

Wim Coenen 2010-02-17 13:40:20

Also keep in mind that if you have the latest version of Tortoise or Ankh, that doesn't upgrade your command-line client. :)

Dave Markle 2010-02-17 13:41:07

Answer 2

+1 A:

As wcoenen and Dave Markle said, you have an old version that doesn't have the --keep-local option. To be more specific, this option was introduced in version 1.5.

As a workaround:

Copy the files out of your working copy
svn delete
svn commit
Copy them back into the working copy
Add them to svn:ignore so they don't get checked in again!

Michael Hackner 2010-02-17 13:52:04

I've given this a +1 because even with the keep-local option, I still had trouble deleting a few years of incorrectly added binary files from my repository. Using keep-local and svn:ignore just caused my files to be deleted completely - I still needed to keep them, I just didn't want them in my repository :)

Stephen Orr 2010-08-31 09:08:51

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